[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl-2.6.1 on Fedora Core?

[Camm Maguire]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.

Greetings!  Recently posted the following to various lists.  The
problem, BTW, is identical to GNU emacs' problem (unexec), and the
solution apparently the same, given the fedora emacs spec file.

There is a long thread about this between some Fedora people and
myself and Tim Daly on the axiom mailing list archives.

Take care,

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Greetings!  GCL is fully functional on FC1 without global exec-shield
shutoff provided one makes use of 'setarch'.  Built gcl and acl2
binaries are in my home directory provided by J. Shapiro.

GCL
1) setarch i386 ./configure (optional --enable-dynsysgmp, etc.)
2) setarch i386 make

ACL2
1) setarch i386 make lisp=gcl
2) setarch i386 ./saved_acl2

etc.

If there is a way in which a program can internally, i.e. from within,
do its own 'setarch' and one can explain this to me, I'd be happy to
put it in GCL, configured in when appropriate.  Or if someone can post
the sources to setarch.  At the moment, the most convenient thing
would appear to be to provide an acl2 (or maxima, gcl, axiom...)
wrapper script with the setarch i386 explicitly provided.

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Rex Dieter <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm unable to successfully build gcl-2.6.1 (gcl_2.6.1-30.tar.gz) on Fedora
> Core.  I'm fairly certain exec-shield (and non-executable stack) is the
> culprit.
> 
> I'd like to get this resolved, so we can see gcl in Fedora Extras,
> submission URL:
> http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=753
> 
> I can provide gcl developer(s) a remote shell account on a Fedora Core box
> if needed.
> 
> -- Rex

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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